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Monday, March 17, 2014

Images in SharePoint Server 2013 search

You might have noticed that SharePoint Server 2013 does not crawl image files (jpg, png,gif,…) and that it only returns these images as list items. Steve Mann wrote a series of blog posts about this (see links in the references) section – in the next steps I will outline a summary of the required steps as reminder:

Add image to file types to search and run a full crawl of all content

The image result type still uses the Default item display template – create a copy of the image result type and modify it to use the Picture item display template as outlined in SharePoint 2013: Image Preview in Search Results - Part II, strangely enough this will work different for images stored in a picture library or in another library – so you still have to modify the Picture item display template